Leading entertainment journal Variety has partnered with UN Women’s HeForShe campaign to host a landmark event on the subject of gender equality within the film industry. Taking place on Saturday 16 May, speakers include Academy Award-nominated actress and producer Salma Hayek, Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and actress Parker Posey.

This critically acclaimed documentary going behind the scenes of Jennifer Lynch's (David Lynch's daughter), filmmaking in India. Surrounded by a team of truly wonderful Indian crewm he 12 year old daughter, and a cast of Bollywood stars, Lynch does her best to stay sane and guide the production through a minefield of disasters.

Rising starlet Kirsty Hill is set to make an eye-popping appearance in Sony Pictures' upcoming The Hungover Games, a parody mashup of Hollywood's mega-blockbusters 'The Hangover' and 'The Hunger Games'.

When socially awkward scientists experiment with love, usually only hilarity ends up as a result. In this season, the gang's romantic universe expands as Leonard, Howard, Raj and even Sheldon test their skills outside of the lab. On the rebound from Penny, Leonard falls into the arms of Raj's sister, Priya. Sheldon finally gets a girlfriend – or rather a friend who is a girl – Amy, a dour neurobiologist who adopts Penny as her new best friend. Howard and Bernadette's chemistry heats up – and so do Raj and Bernadette (at least in Raj's Bollywood daydream!) The romantic twists and turns, both real or imagined, continue to bring on the laughs in this award-winning series.

Even as some grumble that Criterion should focus on bringing lost classics to DVD, it's tough to argue that the underappreciated Monsoon Wedding hasn't benefitted from the company's topflight treatment.